Bloom Archives
Category: Our Town
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John Taylor, CEO: Association of College Unions International
Many people know that a student union is a building set aside for the recreational, social, and governmental activities of students, but even people…
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Mary & Morris Hickman Foster Parents
In 29 years of foster parenting, Mary Hickman and her husband, Morris, helped raise 54 foster children alongside their own four children. Some of…
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Joel Stager Swim Coach & Researcher
Joel Stager has made a career of studying high-performance athletes, so one might assume the goal has been to help them win. But Stager,…
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Virginia Githiri: PopKorn Professor
Virginia Githiri believes that when people hold back any of their talents, “something in the cycle of humanity is broken.” So she intentionally keeps…
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Marvin Sterling: Anthropology Professor
Marvin Sterling, associate professor of anthropology at Indiana University, studies Japanese devotees of Jamaican culture—an interest piqued by a doll he saw in a…
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Karin Willison: Writer and Editor
As a successful writer and the disabilities editor for The Mighty, a website for people with health challenges and disabilities that has more than…
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Nicky James: VP at Cook Medical
“All roads have led to this position for me,” says Nicky James, vice president of human resources and talent development for Cook Medical and…
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Mary Ann Macklin: Activist Minister
It was that nagging little voice inside—along with some encouragement from Mom—that ultimately set Mary Ann Macklin on her true path. Macklin, senior minister…
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Tristra Newyear Yeager: Russophile & Writer
Tristra Newyear Yeager admits these are peculiar times for an admirer of Russian culture. But while American and Russian politicians carry on their geopolitical…